‘Justice League’ Reviews Call the Movie More of an Injustice

Justice League opens this Friday (well, technically, this Thursday night), and early this morning the review embargo finally lifted. We won’t see the Rotten Tomatoes score until tomorrow morning, but for now we have all kinds of reviews to sift through to figure out whether or not this movie is worth paying fifteen bucks for. From the looks of things, it doesn’t really sound that way.

You can read our own review here, but if you need more than one critic’s word, check out these others below:

If this was the best DC could do in synthesizing all their lead characters together into one ensemble spectacular, after a half-decade of planning, that’s pretty damning. Justice League is such a misguided mess—often feeling entirely unguided—that you want to intervene, softly saying, “Stop, stop, you don’t have to do this, stop.”

In the end, though, there is something ponderous and cumbersome about Justice League; the great revelation is very laborious and solemn and the tiresome post-credits sting is a microcosm of the film’s disappointment.

With all the characters that need to be introduced, the virtually humor-free script by Chris Terrio and Joss Whedon (who was brought on to complete directing duties after Zack Snyder had to leave for family reasons) less resembles deft narrative scene-setting than it does the work of a bored casino dealer rotely distributing cards around a table.

In place of disaster, Justice League is a largely bland, forgettable affair that has nice moments scattered throughout and the promise of a better tomorrow, but outside of Wonder Woman, that’s all the DCEU ever really offers: the promise that the next movie will be better.